Southam Road and Harbury railway station

Southam Road and Harbury railway station was a railway station 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Harbury, Warwickshire.

Southam Road and Harbury
Station remains in 2005
Location
PlaceHarbury
AreaDistrict of Stratford-on-Avon
Coordinates52.23457°N 1.43256°W / 52.23457; -1.43256
Grid referenceSP388597
Operations
Original companyBirmingham and Oxford Junction Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Western Railway
Post-groupingGreat Western Railway
Platforms2
History
1 October 1852Station opens
2 November 1964Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

History

The station was on the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, which was taken over by the Great Western Railway prior to opening from Banbury to Birmingham on 1 October 1852; Southam Road and Harbury was one of nine intermediate stations originally provided.[1] The station was brick-built and had a goods siding.

British Railways closed the station to goods traffic on 11 November 1963,[2] and to passengers on 2 November 1964.[3][4] It was subsequently demolished and few traces remain. The route is now part of the Chiltern Main Line.

Route
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Fenny Compton
Line open; station closed		   Great Western Railway
Chiltern Main Line		   Leamington Spa
Line and station open

Notes
  1. MacDermot 1927, p. 324.
  2. Mitchell & Smith 2004, fig. 29.
  3. Railway Magazine, December 1964, p.920
  4. Mitchell & Smith 2004, fig. 30.

References
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • MacDermot, E.T. (1927). History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. I (1st ed.). Paddington: Great Western Railway.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (March 2004). Banbury to Birmingham. Western Main Lines. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-904474-27-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • "Services withdrawn by L.M.R.". Railway Magazine. Westminster: Tothill Press. 110 (764). December 1964.
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